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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1168/1(132)
Title:: Calcutta. Kali Ghaut on the Hooghly. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait group of three ascetics seated at the roadside at Kalighat, in front of a small wooden shrine containing images.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(100)
Title:: Fakeers [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:: Signed and numbered Shepherd & Robertson Photo: 1127 in the negative. Portrait of two ascetics, one standing, one seated cross-legged. Photograph listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Udasees (Fakeers).'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1258(35)
Title:: Yeh aik bilkul pargal aadhmi nai [naked ascetic lying in the roadway [Calcutta]. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1946-1953
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: ST1062 vol. 4(9)
Title:: A Mahomedan fakeer. From the Oriental Annual. Lives of the Moghul Emperors by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B.D., with twenty-two engravings from drawings by William Daniell, R.A. 1837. Artist(s): Garner, T., after Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Scope & Content:: A Mahomedan fakeer. From the Oriental Annual. Lives of the Moghul Emperors by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B.D., with twenty-two engravings from drawings by William Daniell, R.A. 1837.. Artist(s): Garner, T., after Daniell, William (1769-1837)
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1836-1837
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: W4998(19)
Title:: 'A Mahomedan of Distrinction with a Dervise on his Pilgrimage. .. Jam. Forbes, 1768. .. 1812.' Pl. 19, in Forbes, J. 'Oriental Memoirs.' Volume 1. London: 1813. Artist(s): Wageman, T., after Forbes, James (1749-1819)
Scope & Content:: 'A Mahomedan of Distrinction with a Dervise on his Pilgrimage. ... Jam. Forbes, 1768. ... 1812.' Pl. 19, in Forbes, J. 'Oriental Memoirs.' Volume 1. London: 1813.. Artist(s): Wageman, T., after Forbes, James (1749-1819)
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1812-1813
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD345
Title:: Devaprayaga and a rope bridge across the Bagirathi, Garhwal (U.P.). 'Slit-eared' ascetics sitting on the rocks in the foreground and a woman washing her clothes. 11 May 1808. Artist(s): Hearsey, Hyder Young (1782-1840)
Scope & Content:: Devaprayaga and a rope bridge across the Bagirathi, Garhwal (U.P.). 'Sliteared' ascetics sitting on the rocks in the foreground and a woman washing her clothes. 11 May 1808. Water-colour; 14.25 by 21.75 ins. Note: ‘See Asiatick Researches’, xi, 1810, 488.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1808
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD525
Title:: A village of fakirs on the banks of the Ganges, Pathargata, Bhagalpur district (Bihar). An Englishman and his wife, shaded by an umbrella, are about to embark on a boat. Artist(s): Ritso, John (1772-1866)
Scope & Content:: A village of fakirs on the banks of the Ganges, Patharghata, Bhagalpur district (Bihar). An Englishman and his wife, shaded by an umbrella, are about to embark on a boat. c.1800. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Fakeer Village at Pattergotta, J.Ritso’; on back in pencil; ‘Pattergotta, India, J.Rit...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1800
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD553
Title:: Pilgrims and Hindu ascetics, Madras. Artist(s): Gantz, Justinian (1802-1862)
Scope & Content:: Pilgrims and Hindu ascetics, Madras. 1841. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Pilgrims, Sainashees, Bairaghees, Pandarams. Just Gantz. Popham's Broadway. No.35. Madras 1841.’ Water-colour; 11.5 by 19.25 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1841
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD638
Title:: A fakir's hut in the valley of Periyakulam; an ascetic and a European with sepoys in the foreground. May 1784. Artist(s): MacKenzie, Colin (1754-1821)
Scope & Content:: (14) A fakir's hut in the valley of Periyakulam; an ascetic and a European with sepoys in the foreground. May 1784. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘The Habitation of a Fakeer on a Rock in the Vale of Periacollum, May 1784. District of Dindigul.’ Water-colour; 12 by 19 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1784
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD796
Title:: Fakir's hut in the Periyakulam Pass, Dindigal District. May 1794. Artist(s): MacKenzie, Colin (1754-1821)
Scope & Content:: (66) Fakir's hut in the Periyakulam Pass. May 1794. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘The Habitation of a Fakeer in the Vale of Periacollum, District of Dindigul. May 1784. C. Mackenzie.’ Wash; 8.5 by 11 ins.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1784
Extent:: 1 Item

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